Operationalism Under Propertarianism Renders Postmodernist, Critique, and Kantian Arguments Impossible
Deceptions LAUNDERING: Laundering actions and individuals via aggregation into symbols, objects and entities LOADING: Loading with emotional or moral sentiments FRAMING: Framing by selection of causes and properties OVERLOADING: Overloading by production of a multitude of arguments Applications THE COSMOPOLITAN TECHNIQUE: CRITIQUE: Using all of the above to defend a straw man by attacking with…
Requirements for Voluntary Cooperation
(worth repeating) [W]e are only ‘voluntarily cooperating’ if we have a choice to cooperate or not. We use the term ‘cooperate’, originating with human voluntary cooperation, and by analogy apply it to other creatures who simulate voluntary cooperation. But, how many of those creatures voluntarily cooperate, and how many of them only appear to, and…
Result of Interaction
RESULTS: THE FORMS OF INTERACTION – FROM WAR TO PRODUCTION TO SUICIDE 1) WAR: Both parties prey upon each other in mutual destruction (consumption) 2) PREDATION: In which on party preys upon the other for the purpose of destruction (consumption) 3) PARASITISM: In which one party benefits at another’s expense 4) COMMENSALISM: In which one…
Liberty is Like Truth….
Liberty is like truth : there is infinitely more of it than you have, no matter how much you have at present. Liberty is not a state. It’s a pursuit. (Critical Rationalism may not be perfect but it will cure a lot of intellectual ills.)
Contra: Response to Tom Woods and Chris Cantwell on Aggression
CONTRA TOM WOODS AND CHRIS CANTWELL ON AGGRESSION (Note: I love the pejorative term ’emotional hypochondriac’. I’ll have to use that.) CRITICISM 1 To say that aggression is precise is not the same as saying it’s sufficient. (It’s not). To say that harm is imprecise is not the same as saying it’s false. All these…
For Tom Woods: On Thick and Thin
Tom, Great of you to weigh in on this topic. You’ve also provided Rothbardians with an ‘out’ that I didn’t think of. That the NAP is fullness of libertarianism but not the fullness of life. I’d thought that the only ‘out’ was that rothbardian libertarianism was sufficient for the moral interaction of states, but insufficient…
Moral Realism: The Prohibition On Free Riding
(pulled out and reposted) [L]ibertarianism argues that Non Aggression, (NAP) + Intersubjectively Verifiable Property (IVP) constitute a universal moral natural law. This is ‘almost real’. And any claim that natural rights or natural law exist is to claim moral realism (constant correspondence.) Now, I disagree with IVP and NAP, because I have learned that human…
Dark Enlightenment, Propertarianism, Aristocratic Egalitarianism
[T]HE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT IS A CRITICISM. [P]ROPERTARIANISM IS AN EXPLANATION. [A]RISTOCRATIC EGALITARIANISM IS A SOLUTION.*
Sovereignty Begins with Violence, Morality is Made by Violence
—“Right is not the offspring of doctrine, but of power. All laws, commandments, or doctrines as to not doing to another what you do not wish done to you, have no inherent authority whatever, but receive it only from the club, the gallows, and the sword. A man truly free is under no obligation to…
The Current Propertarian Canon (Reading List)
(in suggested reading order) Note that I do not list the usual works of ‘lament’ about the fall of the west. I assume that we all understand that. But understanding it isn’t a means of countering it. Countering it requires we understand the origins of liberty, the constitution of liberty, and act to restore our…
Aristocratice Egalitarianism vs The Central Libertarian Fallacies
(worth repeating) –Aristocratic Egalitarianism is a replacement for the fallacy of immaculate conception we call natural law. And High trust society is a replacement for the fallacy of aggression as sufficient for the formation of a voluntary polity in the absence of a state. Propertarianism is the explanation why.—
The Irony Of Praxeological Apriorism
[I]n retrospect, isn’t it ironic that not just a single thinker, but a group of thinkers have tried to construct a logic of rational action, and extend it into a logic of cooperation, and further into a logic of economics, by using a method of philosophical argument that is expressly not constructed of actions –…
Property? – It Wasn’t Scarcity. 🙂
Curt Doolittle : so you agree with Tucker here? http://youtu.be/83se-G-9SeU?t=23m26s (Jeffrey Tucker AMA Hosted by Mike Shanklin) [W]ell, I think the scarcity-as-primary cause has been replaced with an evolutionary spectrum. The evidence now appears that: (a) Property evolved for preventing free riding during cooperation (along with mating – we dont’ know which was first –…
Property? – It Wasn't Scarcity. 🙂
Curt Doolittle : so you agree with Tucker here? http://youtu.be/83se-G-9SeU?t=23m26s (Jeffrey Tucker AMA Hosted by Mike Shanklin) [W]ell, I think the scarcity-as-primary cause has been replaced with an evolutionary spectrum. The evidence now appears that: (a) Property evolved for preventing free riding during cooperation (along with mating – we dont’ know which was first –…
Interesting: “Know”, “Knowing” and “Knowledge” As Terms Of Obscurantism
[P]ossession of knowledge is not a binary condition, but a spectrum from awareness or intuition, through hypothesis, theory and law, through parsimonious theoretical completeness, through axiomatic declaration, through tautological identity. The context for use of such knowledge in pursuit of some action determines necessary sufficiency. Despite our habits, one cannot say that one knows something…
Interesting: "Know", "Knowing" and "Knowledge" As Terms Of Obscurantism
[P]ossession of knowledge is not a binary condition, but a spectrum from awareness or intuition, through hypothesis, theory and law, through parsimonious theoretical completeness, through axiomatic declaration, through tautological identity. The context for use of such knowledge in pursuit of some action determines necessary sufficiency. Despite our habits, one cannot say that one knows something…
Should The Government Have The Right To Censor Videos Like Collateral Murder? Why Or Why Not?
I WILL TRY TO DO THIS QUESTION JUSTICE. How you frame the question influences answers. I’ll try to give the correct answer by reframing the question slightly as other than yes or no. The philosophical question censorship is not whether government should have the ability, but (1) whether members of the military should or can…
What Would A Political Economy Representative Of A Public Look Like?
IMPOLITIC BUT CORRECT ANSWER: The lower the distribution of IQ below 106, the more socialist, and the higher the distribution of IQ above 106 the more individualist. The higher the impulsivity (testosterone) the more insular the polity needs to be. The lower the impulsivity (testosterone) the more inclusive it can be. The lower the literacy…
Is The Cato Institute Libertarian In Political Views? How?
Technically, Cato, is a classical liberal libertarian institution favoring small government, and the civil society. (Cato does work within the system and has an audience in DC because it works within the system.) The Heritage group also favors traditional society and classical liberalism. The majority of the remaining think tanks (FEI, etc) place more emphasis…
Why Are Russian People Such Bad Drivers?
It’s not sampling bias. Russians are disproportionately dangerous drivers. Look up the data. There are just many more repressed people taking out their anger on the road than in many other cultures, plus more alcohol,poorly maintained vehicles, wet and icy roads, less consideration. However, if you get to drive in the middle east, it makes…
We Require Exchange and ‘Calculability’, Not Yet Another Arbitrary Moral Argument
Regarding: New Libertarians: New Promoters of a Welfare State johnmccaskey.com John. [G]ood piece. Although, I’m critical of philosophical pretense in social justice as much as I am in the market. If any judgment is beyond our perception, and any concept of social justice is, then we must, as in all other matters where complexity exceeds…
We Require Exchange and 'Calculability', Not Yet Another Arbitrary Moral Argument
Regarding: New Libertarians: New Promoters of a Welfare State johnmccaskey.com John. [G]ood piece. Although, I’m critical of philosophical pretense in social justice as much as I am in the market. If any judgment is beyond our perception, and any concept of social justice is, then we must, as in all other matters where complexity exceeds…
Why So Little Social Class Rotation? Nature. All Nature.
WHY SO LITTLE SOCIAL ROTATION? IT’S PRETTY MUCH ALL NATURE. –“If genetics dominates, then the persistence rate should be the same at the top and at the bottom of the social hierarchy. Moreover, endogamous social groups—groups whose members do not marry outside the group—will be completely persistent in their status, high or low. Groups that…
A More Equal World : Thank The Anglos For Capitalism And For Dragging Humanity Out Of Ignorance And Poverty.
Regarding: China poised to pass US as world’s leading economic power – FT.com –“When looking at the actual consumption per head, the report found the new methodology as well as faster growth in poor countries have “greatly reduced” the gap between rich and poor, “suggesting that the world has become more equal”. The world’s rich…
We Can Now Objectively And Scientifically Judge Good Philosophers And Bad Philosophers
(suggestions wanted) [I]f we acknowledge that democracy is a failure, and all philosophers who attempted to justify democracy failures, and all philosophers who attempted to expand democracy into socialism and postmodernism failures, we are left with instrumentalists (empiricists) and reactionaries of various fields. Philosophy as a discipline, must face the uncomfortable fact, that (a) the…